The 2009 What Color is Your Parachute?

The 2009 What Color is Your Parachute?
Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1580089313

A guide to discovering personal goals and interests explains how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment

What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online, Sixth Edition

What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online, Sixth Edition
Author: Mark Emery Bolles
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607740338

Before you start your Internet job-hunt, there are some things that you must know, like: • Why are job sites like Monster and CareerBuilder so stunningly ineffective? • What can you do to make sure your resumes survive the elimination process? • How do you find the information that search engines like Google can’t? • How can you tell the difference between a genuinely helpful job board, and a website designed only to collect resumes? • When are hobby forums more helpful than business networking sites? • When is the Internet not helpful when job-hunting? • What is the fatal flaw of all social networking sites? The Guide to Job-Hunting Online, 6th Edition, not only answers these questions and many more, but shows you how to comprehensively and effectively use the Internet for all aspects of your job-hunt. This companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, has been completely rewritten for our changing times and includes hundreds of updated website recommendations and descriptions. The Guide to Job-Hunting Online shows you how to quickly find the data that will be most helpful to you, how to identify and research the places where you will most enjoy working, how to leverage the power of social networking sites, and how to use your Internet time most effectively, avoiding the common pitfalls and setting you up for success.

What Color is Your Parachute? for Teens

What Color is Your Parachute? for Teens
Author: Carol Christen
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2010
Genre: High school students
ISBN: 158008141X

Presents advice for teenagers on landing a dream job.

You Majored in What?

You Majored in What?
Author: Katharine Brooks, EdD
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0452296005

Fully revised and updated in 2017, the revolutionary career guide for a new generation of job-seekers, from one of the U.S.’s top career counselors “So what are you going to do with your major?” It’s an innocent question that can haunt students from high school to graduate school and beyond. Relax. Your major is just the starting point for designing a meaningful future. In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you want to do and how to get it—no matter what you studied in college. You will learn to map your experiences for insights into your strengths and passions, design possible lives, and create goals destined to take you wherever you want to go. Using techniques and ideas that have guided thousands of college students to successful careers, Dr. Brooks will teach you to outsmart and outperform your competition, with more Wisdom Builders and an easily applied career development process. No matter what career you aspire to, You Majored in What? offers a practical, creative, and successful approach to finding your path to career fulfillment.

What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, Second Edition

What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, Second Edition
Author: John E. Nelson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-07-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 158008205X

Plan Now for the Life You Want Today’s economic realities have reset our expectations of what retirement is, yet there’s still the promise for what it can be: a life stage filled with more freedom and potential than ever before. Given the new normal, how do you plan for a future filled with prosperity, health, and happiness? As a companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the world’s best-selling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement offers both a holistic, big-picture look at these years as well as practical tools and exercises to help you build a life full of security, vitality, and community. This second edition contains updates throughout, including a section on Social Security, an in-depth exercise on values and how they inform your retirement map, and the one-of-a-kind resource for organizing the sea of information on finances and mental and physical health: the Retirement Well-Being Profile. More than a guide on where to live, how to stay active, or which investments to choose, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement helps you develop a detailed picture of your ideal retirement, so that—whether you’re planning retirement or are there already—you can take a comprehensive approach to make the most of these vital years.

The Career Counselor's Handbook, Second Edition

The Career Counselor's Handbook, Second Edition
Author: Howard Figler
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2011-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607743558

With more than sixty-five combined years of experience in the career development field, Howard Figler and Richard Nelson Bolles are the undisputed authorities when it comes to helping people find meaningful work. In this revised and updated second edition of their classic guide for career counselors, Figler and Bolles show aspiring counselors how to break into the business, and give experienced counselors ideas for improving effectiveness and recharging their practice. Outlining tools, problem-solving tips, and ethical values for today's career counselor, THE CAREER COUNSELOR'S HANDBOOK features new information about performing the Annual Career Checkup, choosing Essence over Ego, and using the Internet-while celebrating the fact that even career counselors need counsel once in a while.

Resounding Truth

Resounding Truth
Author: Jeremy Begbie
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0801026954

A world-renowned scholar and musician helps Christians respond with theological discernment to music.

What Color is Your Aura?

What Color is Your Aura?
Author: Barbara Bowers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1989-12-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0671707639

From Simon & Schuster, What Color Is Your Aura?: Personality Spectrums for Understanding and Growth describes the colored bands of light that surround everyone's body. What Color Is Your Aura? is the only book available that will tell readers what color their aura is and what it reveals about their personality, emotions, talents and potential.

Find Your Inner Red Shoes

Find Your Inner Red Shoes
Author: Mariela Dabbah
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0698136993

ARE YOU STRUGGLING TO ADVANCE IN YOUR CAREER? HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS? In Find Your Inner Red Shoes, bestselling author, motivational speaker and founder of the Red Shoe Movement, Mariela Dabbah teaches us that personal and professional success is a journey and not a destination point. In fact, it’s only by discovering ourselves and what gives us greatest satisfaction that we can defne what success means for each one of us. Based on Dabbah’s own life and thorough research, as well as the careers of dozens of other successful women, this book will help you fulfll your goals whatever you decide those to be. Chapter by chapter you’ll identify your strengths as well as the areas in which you might need to make adjustments to advance in the professional world. Dabbah will also show you how to break free from any childhood fears or family pressures that may be holding you back. Only when you recognize who you are can you then tap into your passion and personal style and triumph in today’s competitive global market. So go head, slip on those red heels (or flats!) and empower yourself, and other women, by joining the Red Shoe Movement. Only you can walk in your shoes down that shiny path toward success and this book is the perfect companion. Includes exclusive interviews with: SOLEDAD O’BRIEN MARÍA CELESTE ARRARÁS IVONNE BAKI CAROLINA BAYÓN NORA BULNES ANNA MARÍA CHÁVEZ REMEDIOS DÍAZ OLIVER NANCY DUBUC ELENA ROGER MARÍA ELENA SALINAS ROSELYN SÁNCHEZ CRISTINA SARALEGUI

The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search: The Proven Program Used by the World’s Leading Career Services Company

The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search: The Proven Program Used by the World’s Leading Career Services Company
Author: Orville Pierson
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071762442

The Proven Program Used by 600,000 Job Hunters! You put hours and hours of hard work into your job search and the companies you've contacted never call. It's a story all too common in the fast-paced, highly competitive world of job hunting. Nothing is more discouraging than sending one resumé after another into the job-hunting void. Eventually, you expect silence from the other end. The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search was written so this never happens to you again. These techniques, developed by author Orville Pierson, have been used successfully for ten years by Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), the world's premier career services company. Here, Pierson provides you with the job-search techniques that up to now have been limited to the LHH consultants he trains. Orville Pierson has helped thousands of job hunters during his career, taking note of the characteristics that have led to success as well as failure. In The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search, he supplies key information on how professional job search consultants structure the job search project so you can apply the same winning strategies to your own search. You'll also be privy to inside information on how decision makers operate, enabling you to get the inside track on job openings before they are announced. This insider's guide covers every phase of the job search, leading you step by step through the process of creating a clear-cut plan-essential to every job search. Using the Pierson Method, you'll learn how to Develop a Target List (the key ingredient to every job search) Measure your progress Create a “core message” about yourself that decision makers won't forget Present yourself in the best possible light to prospective employers Using these strategies, Orville Pierson and LHH have helped 600,000 people land great new jobs. Employ the Pierson Method in your hunt for employment and you'll soon be doing what you love in the company that's right for you.